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Christmas Letter 2011 and Mission Trip gallery

Photo with flag

Hope you all had a wonderful year! Here is my Christmas letter for 2011. Merry Christmas one and all!

I haven't had a chance to make one of my photo galleries for my mission trip like years gone past. But it is up online.

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Merry Christmas 2010

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Hope you all had a wonderful 2010! Here is my Christmas letter for 2010. Merry Christmas one and all!

The "readers digest" version is on my mission trip I got to go to Siberia Russia (bookended by a couple of days in New York City). Followed by a couple of quick (cheap non-rev/interline) scuba trips to Roatan and the Florida Keys. :)

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Christmas Letter 2009

Hope you all had a wonderful 2008! Here is my Christmas letter for 2009. Merry Christmas one and all!

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Christmas Letter 2008

Hope you all had a wonderful 2008! Here is my Christmas letter. Merry Christmas one and all!

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Merry Tossmas

Merry Tossmas and Feliz Navi-Toss! If you'd like to celebrate Tossmas or just learn more, then click here.

It's not a boycott or plea to mail your congressmen. Just a suggestion to make you think ... and with a bit of humor to boot.

  • Happy non-specified Holiday!
  • What are you buying your kids for Thanksgiving this year?
  • Can't find that right *Christmas* card? Or *Christmas* gift? Or *Christmas* decorations? Then why look in a *Holiday* catalog?

This and more in the video ... :-)

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Christmas/Russia 2006 letter ... again

Oops, posted the title image again ... meant to post like this:

I sent out my Christmas letter quite late ... you can see it here (pdf, opens in new window).

Russia was great. They have a lot of students that are hanging out w/ the stint-ers and staff. And our 2 stint-ers (1+ years international trip) from NBC are helping plant the new church in Ekat. You can see pics of the infant church at Darin's site and Ashley's (1 of the 2 NBC stint-ers) site below.

  • Darin (opens in new window)
  • Ashley (opens in new window)

My letter: image from my Russia 2006 gallery (scvanger hunt)

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Christmas/Russia 2006 letter

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Christmas 2006

Christmas 2006 gallery

My 2006 Christmas gallery. This is a combination of my Community Group (LLCG) party, family Christmas party, and recreational activities while at home. check it out.

P.S. there are 4 short movies herein, find em! :*))

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Merry Christmas

I just got my Christmas letter out this weekend ... you can see it here in HTML, or here in PDF.

Note: the HTML version is smaller for viewing online, the PDF is larger for printing.

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Merry Christmas Russia

Dear Friends and Family,

The English classes were a great success! Thanks to everyone that supported me in prayer and financially. We had 2 students trust in Jesus during the classes! Last year we had to wait for the first fruits to come later during Compas' (sic) follow up Bible studies (Compas is the name of the Russian branch of Campus Crusade for Christ).

We arrived in Russia after about 20 hours of traveling. It was very tiring but I was also excited to see our Compas friends and to see the students who professed faith in Jesus over the past year. Three of the four students in my class who became believers were student language helpers in the English classes this year!

This year, just like last, we saw God provide again and again. Just one week before we were to arrive and start the classes, only 40 students had signed up. That's disappointing since we needed at least 150 students to fill the 5 classes. Darin (the Compas director for Ekaterinburg) sent out a prayer letter requesting urgent prayer for the classes. And on the Wednesday before we were to arrive, 130 additional students signed up ... that's 170 total students and more than enough for the English classes! Seeing God provide day after day is one of the things that drew me back to Russia this year. Each morning and afternoon the team from Northwest Bible Church would have a prayer time. Praying for each other and for our classes. And we saw God answer prayer over and over ... what a blessing those times were.

Several times while in Russia I was able to get to an internet connection and put some of what was going on and some of my thoughts into my onine diary (aka weblog, aka blog) ... this blog. Some of the relevant posts are:

Since the classes ended, I have received news that 11 students have trusted in Jesus! ... 11!

Also, I have finally loaded and commented my 2004 Russia gallery, you can see it here : Russia 2004.

Note: this is hosted on my home PC w/ a DSL connection ... I hope it isnt too slow. Please leave feedback whenever you feel "inspired" to.

Also note: You just got your Christmas card from me ... if you need to, print off a pic, put it in an envelope, drop it in the mailbox, get it from the mailbox, open it, exclaim "We just got a Christmas card from Rodney!" (grin).

Merry Christmas!

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